Not Insane, just different

Chapter 14: The Abandoned Family

I had a feeling Aiden was transforming soon. Yes, I'm a genius. Now the tip of his ears were slightly growing, and he was getting a tad bit hairier. We were almost home though....I hope he makes it soon.

Next stop: burn grace Avenue

Finally. We got off the bus and now Aiden was shaking hard, but what the hell? The full moon wasn't even out yet. It was only 6:12AM. I thought werewolves transformed at night or in the full moon?

"Layla....I feel weird...can we go home now?"

"We're almost there Aiden, just give it a few more minutes.

We walked down the sidewalk. We past some old friends houses and the park we used to play at alot. Something was different though...normally around 6AM, there are grownups getting into cars and sometimes, me and Tori get up at a specific time to go get a half off coffee in the morning. It was quiet...but too quiet.

"Do you think this place changed? It feels horribly weird..." I started off.

"Well yeah but can we do a thing about it?" Tori replied.

"No, but still...."

We crossed the bridge me and Justin always took as kids. That was now covered in red...maybe blood. The moment I saw it, I stopped walking and stared at it. The moment Tori saw it, she gasped. The moment Aiden saw it, he looked away.

"Ew...what the hell is this stuff? Is it blood?"

"Please don't tell me it is....I have a bad feeling something horrible happened to this place." Aiden ended off.

The truth was, we all did. We passed the bridge and went into a little short cut we knew through a tree invested area. It looked liked everyone had seen it and it was totally cleared up. Finally, we passed some more houses and reached ours. There was a sign up on our neighbors house.

AREA RISTRICTED
THIS RESIDENTAL AREA IS NOT TO BE ENTERED IN ANY WAY.

"Yo guys.. wanna go in and check it out?" I smirked

"But the door is locked!"

"I can budge it open." Aiden said. And with all his might, the door opened within a few tries.

"We shouldn't really be doing this...." Tori started off.

"I know, but c'mon, your not a pussy, are you?" I said. The thing is, I didn't even feel safe over this either.

We entered the building to see if anyone was in. There were photo frames of the neighbors. Ah, our old friend, Rhianna. I remember her. She told me horrible stories of her dad abusing her and her mom. I think the dad became a serial killer or so, because next thing you know, Rhianna and her mom were dead.

"Should we go check upstairs?"

"That's not a good idea, what if this place is haunted? I mean, why would it be restricted to come in anyway?" Tori questioned.

"That's only in the movies, there's nothing wrong with it, let's just go."

So that's what we did. We went upstairs slowly. This place didn't look haunted. It looked lonely and quiet. We went into Rhianna's room first, and found a newspaper on her bed. As well as a ton of dried blood on the floor. We read the newspaper.

FATHER OF INNOCENT FAMILY KILLS THEM ALL! - 03/19/2007

"Wait...I thought she died 2 years ago...it's 2015 now.." Tori looked at me with wide eyes.

"Your right...2013 was the last time we saw her..." I stared at the blood on the floor.

"You don't suppose...."

".....we've been hanging out with a ghost the entire time...."

"No....way..." Aiden was looking at something else.

"What?" I turned around to see what he was looking at. We were looking at what used to be her house. Half the house was broken and walls were completely destroyed and covered with holes. Aiden quickly perked up.

"I smell another werewolf."

"What? How? And where?"

"Well, not exactly the full body, but the blood of one."

We followed Aiden around and watched in amazement as he soon found the source. There was blood in the sink in the bathroom. The bathroom was also trashed. There was a hung up body in the tub, and it's eyes were ripped off and her flesh was completely gone and most of her body was rotten and broken. I bet that was her mother.

"I think there dad was a werewolf and caused all this. The blood from the woman doesn't match the blood from the sink. And also the one from Rhianna's room. " Aiden exlained. Me and Tori just stared with big eyes.

"So...are YOU going to be like this? We said, quite scared. Aiden looked at us with wide eyes.

"What? NO...well...hopefully not... werewolves can't control themselves sometimes..."

"So basically, spirits and werewolves exist but not shadow people....huh....I really AM going insane." I said out loud to myself.

"No your not, we just haven't seen it yet." Tori overheard and replied.

Or did you?

We all jumped.

"Layla was that you?"

"No, I didn't say anything!"

Why are you guys here anyway?

This was when we ran downstairs heading for the door. But someone was blocking it. It was-- shadow dad!

Tori and Aiden were shocked. Tori screamed while Aiden kept cursing. I only stared in amazement.

"Wow, you guys can actually see him!" I exclaimed, still smiling.

"WHO THE HELL IS THAT?!" Tori screeched at me.

"It's shadow man! He's the thing I kept seeing around all the time!"

Why are you kids in here anyway? It's says restricted, don't you guys ever listen?

He sounded different to me, but just a bit. He looked and acted the same though.

"It's all Layla fault!" Tori says, pointing to me.

"OK yeah, it is my fault but who cares, we're all safe now, right?"

Did you tell them who I am? He said, putting his hands in the pockets of his trench coat and smirking at a scared Tori.

"Not yet...can I?"

Go on...once we get to your house, we have a surprise.

We all looked at each other and followed him. I guess it was OK to trust him. He never lied about a single thing SO far. Aiden unlocked the door to our house and we saw a scary looking ghost lady. She had a full white dress, a mask that had black eyes and black lips, and short brown hair.

Kids, meet your mom, and meet your dad!

We were all speechless.